Minds and Computers
Subtitle: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press; EDINBURGH UNIV PRESS
Published: February 15, 2007
Place of publication: Edinburgh, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780748620999
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Philosophy; Artificial Intelligence - General; Mind & Body; Philosophy / Modern; History & Surveys - Modern; Artificial intelligence; Kunstmatige intelligentie.; Philosophy of mind; gtt
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Dualism
pagenum: 4; label: 2.1
title: Substance Dualism
pagenum: 4; label: 2.2
title: Cartesian Dualism
pagenum: 5; label: 2.3
title: Positive Arguments for Cartesian Dualism
pagenum: 5; label: 2.3.1
title: The Argument from Religion
pagenum: 6; label: 2.3.2
title: The Argument from Introspective Appearance
pagenum: 7; label: 2.3.3
title: The Argument from Essential Properties
pagenum: 8; label: 2.4
title: Arguments against Cartesian Dualism
pagenum: 9; label: 2.4.1
title: The Problem of Other Minds
pagenum: 9; label: 2.4.2
title: Ockham's Razor
pagenum: 10; label: 2.4.3
title: The Problem of Interaction
pagenum: 11; label: 2.5
title: Other Dualisms
pagenum: 12; label: 2.5.1
title: Parallelism
pagenum: 12; label: 2.5.2
title: Occasionalism
pagenum: 13; label: 2.5.3
title: Epiphenomenalism
pagenum: 13; label: 2.6
title: Anomalous Monism
pagenum: 14; label: 3
title: Behaviourism
pagenum: 15; label: 3.1
title: Early Empirical Psychology
pagenum: 15; label: 3.2
title: Physiological Psychology
pagenum: 16; label: 3.3
title: Introspectionist Psychology
pagenum: 17; label: 3.4
title: Psychological Behaviourism
pagenum: 20; label: 3.5
title: Philosophical Behaviourism
pagenum: 23; label: 3.6
title: Objections to Philosophical Behaviourism
pagenum: 24; label: 4
title: Neuroanatomy
pagenum: 27; label: 4.1
title: Macro-Neuroanatomy
pagenum: 27; label: 4.2
title: Micro-Neuroanatomy
pagenum: 32; label: 5
title: Australian Materialism
pagenum: 35; label: 5.1
title: The Causal Theory of Mind
pagenum: 36; label: 5.2
title: The Identity Theory
pagenum: 37; label: 5.3
title: Arguments against Australian Materialism
pagenum: 38; label: 5.4
title: What Mary Didn't Know
pagenum: 42; label: 6
title: Functionalism
pagenum: 44; label: 6.1
title: Functional Definition
pagenum: 44; label: 6.2
title: A Black Box Theory
pagenum: 45; label: 6.3
title: Qualia Objections
pagenum: 48; label: 7
title: Formal Systems
pagenum: 52; label: 7.1
title: Effectivity
pagenum: 53; label: 7.2
title: States and Rules
pagenum: 57; label: 7.3
title: Specification
pagenum: 58; label: 7.4
title: Generation and Derivation
pagenum: 61; label: 7.5
title: Generation Trees
pagenum: 64; label: 7.6
title: Formality and Isomorphism
pagenum: 67; label: 8
title: Computability
pagenum: 70; label: 8.1
title: Register Machines
pagenum: 70; label: 8.2
title: Programs
pagenum: 71; label: 8.3
title: Running a Program
pagenum: 73; label: 8.4
title: Computation
pagenum: 75; label: 8.5
title: Computable Functions
pagenum: 76; label: 8.6
title: Building Programs
pagenum: 79; label: 9
title: Universal Machines
pagenum: 85; label: 9.1
title: Church/Turing Thesis
pagenum: 86; label: 9.2
title: Gödel Coding
pagenum: 88; label: 9.3
title: A Universal Machine
pagenum: 92; label: 10
title: Computationalism
pagenum: 94; label: 10.1
title: What Computationalism Isn't
pagenum: 95; label: 10.2
title: Software and Wetware
pagenum: 99; label: 10.3
title: Variation
pagenum: 101; label: 10.4
title: Learning
pagenum: 103; label: 10.5
title: Creativity
pagenum: 106; label: 10.6
title: Attributing Mentality
pagenum: 108; label: 11
title: Search
pagenum: 113; label: 11.1
title: Top Down, Bottom Up
pagenum: 113; label: 11.2
title: Breadth Versus Depth
pagenum: 115; label: 11.3
title: Heuristic Search
pagenum: 117; label: 12
title: Games
pagenum: 122; label: 12.1
title: A Simple Game
pagenum: 122; label: 12.2
title: Minimax
pagenum: 125; label: 12.3
title: Pruning
pagenum: 127; label: 12.4
title: Humans Versus Computers
pagenum: 128; label: 13
title: Machine Reasoning
pagenum: 132; label: 13.1
title: Logic and Deduction
pagenum: 132; label: 13.2
title: Conditionality and Predication
pagenum: 134; label: 13.3
title: Kinship
pagenum: 137; label: 13.4
title: Expert Systems
pagenum: 141; label: 14
title: Machines and Language
pagenum: 145; label: 14.1
title: Interpreting Language
pagenum: 145; label: 14.2
title: Generative Grammar
pagenum: 149; label: 14.3
title: Phrase Structure Trees
pagenum: 150; label: 14.4
title: Computing Language
pagenum: 152; label: 15
title: Human Reasoning
pagenum: 154; label: 15.1
title: Following Logically
pagenum: 156; label: 15.2
title: Rational Performance
pagenum: 157; label: 15.3
title: Mental Models
pagenum: 160; label: 15.4
title: Explanatory Burden
pagenum: 161; label: 16
title: Human Language
pagenum: 164; label: 16.1
title: Obstruent Phonemes
pagenum: 165; label: 16.2
title: Sonorant Phonemes
pagenum: 167; label: 16.3
title: Allophones and Phonetic Realisation
pagenum: 170; label: 16.4
title: First-Language Acquisition
pagenum: 172; label: 16.5
title: Language and Rules
pagenum: 173; label: 17
title: Meaning
pagenum: 175; label: 17.1
title: The Chinese Room
pagenum: 175; label: 17.2
title: Syntax and Semantics
pagenum: 177; label: 18
title: Representation
pagenum: 181; label: 18.1
title: Intentionality
pagenum: 181; label: 18.2
title: Categories and Content
pagenum: 183; label: 18.3
title: Symbols and Patterns
pagenum: 184; label: 18.4
title: Cognitive Architecture
pagenum: 185; label: 19
title: Artificial Neural Networks
pagenum: 187; label: 19.1
title: Connectionist Architecture
pagenum: 187; label: 19.2
title: Simple Artificial Neural Networks
pagenum: 189; label: 19.3
title: Synthesising Speech
pagenum: 191; label: 19.4
title: Learning
pagenum: 196; label: 19.5
title: Pattern Recognition
pagenum: 198; label: 19.6
title: Two Paradigms?
pagenum: 199; label: 19.7
title: It's Only a Model
pagenum: 200; label: 20
title: Minds and Computers
pagenum: 202; label: 20.1
title: Consciousness
pagenum: 202; label: 20.2
title: Personal Identity
pagenum: 203; label: 20.3
title: Emotions
pagenum: 205; label: 20.4
title: Computers with Minds
pagenum: 206; label: Appendix I
title: Suggestions for Further Reading
pagenum: 207; label: Appendix II
title: Glossary of Terms
pagenum: 211; title: Index
pagenum: 218